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UNINA9910823730103321 |
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Titolo |
Geographies of the book / / edited by Miles Ogborn, Charles W.J. Withers |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-4094-8854-3 |
1-317-12898-2 |
1-315-58445-X |
1-317-12897-4 |
1-282-52500-X |
9786612525001 |
0-7546-9675-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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OgbornMiles |
WithersCharles W. J |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and state |
Book industries and trade - Political aspects |
Book industries and trade - Social aspects |
Books and reading - Political aspects |
Books and reading - Social aspects |
Publishers and publishing - Political aspects |
Publishers and publishing - Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Book Geography, Book History; PART I GEOGRAPHIES OF PRODUCTION; 1 The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal; 2 Steam and the Landscape of Knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s; 3 Construing the Spaces of Print Culture: Book Historians' Visualization Preferences; PART II GEOGRAPHIES OF CIRCULATION; 4 'Per le Piaze & Sopra il Ponte': Reconstructing the Geography of Popular Print in Sixteenth-Century Venice |
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5 The Counting-House Library: Creating Mercantile Knowledge in the Age of Sail6 Printing Posterity: Editing Varenius and the Construction of Geography's History; PART III GEOGRAPHIES OF RECEPTION; 7 Geography, Enlightenment and the Book: Authorship and Audience in Mungo Park's African Texts; 8 Books, Geography and Denmark's Colonial Undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850; 9 Volney's Tableau, Medical Geography and Books on the Frontier; 10 Reading the Messy Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment (1911); Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international team of leading scholars, and illustrated by original empirical material, this work provides a timely synthesis to the geographies of the book, and advances new perspectives on how this area of research should be approached. |
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